Brandi Rhodes On Cody Returning To WWE, Will She Ever Wrestle Again?

Brandi Rhodes (@thebrandirhodes) is a professional wrestler and media personality. She joins chats with Chris Van Vliet on the red carpet at the premiere of "American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes" in Atlanta, GA to talk about her husband Cody Rhodes leaving AEW for WWE, her reaction to his torn pec before the HIAC match with Seth Rollins, would Cody make a good politician, will she ever return to the ring and much more!

Congratulations, I don't think I've talked to you since becoming a mom. 

“Well, thank you. Yeah, probably not. Well, congratulations to you, too.”

Thank you. Maybe you can give me some parenting advice. We are going through it right now.

“Well, here's the advice. You get used to something, and then something changes and you go through it all again.”

I feel like that's what's happening right now, so a lot has changed. And I feel like a lot has changed for Cody too, like it feels like he's a completely different person since the last time that I saw him, which was a few years ago. What do you think has been the biggest change professionally for him?

“Um, honestly, I think just becoming comfortable with everything that he's done and confident in who he's become. It really just shows in the presentation of Cody Rhodes now. I mean, 10 years ago, that Cody, he had a presentation and you know, he had something about him. But it wasn't this. I think he had to grow into this, experience a lot of things to become this.”

 How much do you help him dye his hair as and is it every week? Is it every other week? 

“I know nothing about white folks' hair dye and stuff. So I stay out of that because I would have his hair like an orange colour on accident or something? No, no, he handles his own hair, he handles his wardrobe, like he does his thing. I am very much just focused on the hair and wardrobe of me and a two-year-old right now. And the two-year-old doesn't like what I'm doing half the time. She's like, No, I don't want to wear this anymore.”

He is impeccably dressed all the time.

“Well good, I'm glad because I don't want to be on the opposite end.”

Any chance we'll see you back in the ring?

“You know, not as an active competitor. For sure. [You've retired as a wrestler?] Yeah, I mean, it was really anticlimactic. But yes, I did. I just said you know what? Okay, well, we are either gonna do this the Becky Lynch, you know, Seth Rollins way. And they are amazing for doing it, because I can't. It just was too hard, well not too hard, but just something that I just didn't think would be the best for the family. So, you know, we've gone a different route, and I've started business ventures on my own and he's doing his thing and we're just doing a couple of different things.” 

I feel like when Cody's done with wrestling, whenever that happens to be 40 years from now or whatever, feel like he would make a great politician.

“Oh, please don't wish that. I think he feels the same way. No, you know, he probably would, I don't know that I would make a great politician's wife. Therein lies the problem with that.”

Have you seen the final cut of this film?

“You know, I don't know. I've seen a cut of the film. I don't know that I've seen the final, final cut. So you know, I might be seeing some new stuff here, too, along with everybody else, which is cool.”

Was there something that when you saw you went? Wow, they put that in the film? I can't believe it.

“No, but I was the most impressed with everything I say that's kind of sh*tty. Not like, sh*tty, it's just kind of like, well, I'm telling the truth. I'm smiling, I kind of look like an asshole. But it's kind of funny. It's like a smile delivery of well, that happened. And that was a mess.”

I mean, I'm sure, there were so many different things that went into Cody being back with WWE, but how difficult was it to kind of keep that between you guys for so long?

“Um, you know, it really just didn't come up for me very much. I mean, I'm sure he was getting asked like left, right and in-between, but like, you know, Cody's, he's socially different than I am the way that I'm social. I think people know that I'm not asking her because she'll straight up tell me no, and I don't want to be told no. Whereas Cody will maybe be coy or beat around the bush, I'll just say no.”

What's something that you would say you're most proud of, of your husband?

“I'm just really proud of his ability to just stick with whatever it is that he originally planned. I’m a shapeshifter, my original plans sometimes don't work out and then I will just shift and mould and I'll become something else. Cody is Cody Rhodes. He's the same Cody Rhodes I met when we met 10 years ago, and he's had the same dream. And he had that dream since he was a little kid, you know, and he's gonna see this through.”

What was the phone call like when Cody tore his pec?

“So it's so disappointing on my part because he called and he said to me, don't panic. And Immediately I thought the baby fell, something happened there at the hospital. So I went, Oh my God, what? Just tell me, just tell me. He goes I  think I tore my pec and I said, Oh, thank God. You'll be fine. The baby though. Then, of course, I was like, did you really tear it? Are you sure you know? And yeah, he had torn it.”

And then were you like, and what do you mean, you're still gonna wrestle in Hell in a Cell?

“I was that person that wanted him to. And I did check with Doc Amon, to make sure that I was giving sound advice because I was like, well, if nothing really worse can come of the situation. If you feel okay with it, then I'm, I'm giving my blessing too. So yeah, I mean, I was a performer. So I know I know the feeling like if you can you want to make it happen and those people are counting on you. And you know, people bought tickets for the show, to see the main event with Cody and Seth. So yeah, if you can do it, do it.”

you heard me ask this question of Cody when we were on the bus. But what are three things that you're grateful for in your life? 

"Oh, wow. I'm gonna do what you did because it just gives me three more Genie wishes by saying, family. So everybody, you know, Cody, baby. My mom and dad, my brother and his kids. whole fam. And then honestly, drive, just, you know, I'm 40, when I was 16, 40 was old. I don't feel old. I feel really driven. I feel like I just kind of got a new second wind and I'm in the best shape I've ever been in. And I'm, you know, embarking on this crazy venture that I never thought I was going to do. And you know, I just feel really good. And wisdom with age. I feel like every year the older I become, the less stupid things bother me anymore. They just don't. Yeah. And so I'm happy for that. That allows me to be clear-headed. And just move forward."